Passiflora antioquiensis

Botanical Description

Passiflora antioquiensis is a slender climbing shrub producing shoots up to 5 metres tall. These shoots scramble over the ground, or clamber into the surrounding vegetation, supporting themselves by means of coiling tendrils. The edible fruit is harvested from the wild and the plant is also cultivated, both in its native region and also in southern India and New Zealand[ 317 Title Mansfeld's Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Plants Publication Author Website http://mansfeld.ipk-gatersleben.de/pls/htmldb_pgrc/f?p=185:3:4292127278597336 Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description Terse details of a huge range of useful plants. ]. A very ornamental plant with one of the loveliest flowers in the genus[ 262 Title Passion Flowers Publication Author Vanderplank. J. Publisher Cassell. London. Year 1991 ISBN 0-304-34076-6 Description An excellent book on passion flowers, giving information on hardy species and how to grow the less hardy in greenhouses etc. A bit lacking at times on specific information on hardyness. Excellent photographs. ], it is often grown as an ornamental, growing well in pots in cooler zones[ 262 Title Passion Flowers Publication Author Vanderplank. J. Publisher Cassell. London. Year 1991 ISBN 0-304-34076-6 Description An excellent book on passion flowers, giving information on hardy species and how to grow the less hardy in greenhouses etc. A bit lacking at times on specific information on hardyness. Excellent photographs. ].